The emergence of a national economy : the United States from independence to the Civil War / edited by Malcolm Rutherford ... [et al.].

Contributor Rutherford, Malcolm, 1948-

Imprint:London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2004.

Description6 vol. ; 24 cm.

Note:Facsimiles reprinted from various sources.

Note:"The second part of the Early American Economic Thought collection consists of six volumes covering the period from the Revolution and the early post-colonial period to the Civil War." -- introd., vol. 1

Note:Vols. 1 and 4 are edited by Malcolm Rutherford ; vols. 2 and 3 edited by Marianne Johnson ; vols. 5 and 6 edited by William J. Barber.

Note:Vol. 1. Organization of the national economy. - v.2. Creating a national system of taxation. - v.3-4. The national bank, money, credit and debt, 1776-1820. - v.5. Nationalism and applied issues: 1820 to the Civil War. - v.6. Sectionalism: 1820 to the Civil War.

Note:Vol. 1: Organization of the national economy : - The present state of manufactures, commerce, interior and exterior trade (1785) / Thomas Jefferson. - An enquiry into the principles on which a commercial system for the United States of America should be founded (1787) / Tench Coxe. - An address to an assembly of the friends of American manufactures (1787) / Tench Coxe. - Report on manufaccturers (1791) / Alexander Hamilton. - Reflections on the state of the Union (1795) / Tench Coxe. - An address on the natural and social order of the world (1798) / George Logan. - A letter to the citizens of Pennsylvania on the necessity of promoting agriculture, manufactures, and the useful arts (1800) / George Logan. - Letter to Benjamin Austin ([1816] 1903) / Thomas Jefferson.

Note:Vol. 2: Creating a national system of taxation: - A circular letter from the Congress of the United States of America to their constituents (1779) / John Jay. - A sixth essay on free trade and finance (1783) / Pelatiah Webster. - The dangers of our national prosperity (1785) / Samuel Wales. - Letters ... / Fisher Ames. - Speech on Mr. Madison's resolutions ([1794] 1854) / Fisher Ames. - Fourteen experiments on agriculture (1791) / George Logan. - A short history of the nature and consequences of excise laws (1795) / James Thomson Callender. - National Arithmetick (1786) / James Swan. - A plea for the poor ([1793] 1922) / John Woolman. - Agrarian justice opposed to agrarian law and to agrarian monopoly (1797) / Thomas Paine.

Note:Vol. 3: The National Bank, money, credit and debt, 1776-1820 (part I): - Essays on free trade and finance (1779-85) / Pelatiah Webster. - An essay on credit (1786) / Pelatiah Webster. - Plan for establishing a national bank (1781) / Robert Morris. - Propositions respecting the coinage of gold, silver, and copper (1785) / Robert Morris. - Observations on the nature and use of paper-credit (1781) / William Barton. - The true interest of the United States considered (1786) / William Barton. - On the nature and principles of public credit (1784) / Samuel Gale. - Essay on money as a medium of commerce (1786) / John Witherspoon. - Thoughts concerning the Bank of North America / Tench Coxe.

Note:Vol 4: The National Bank, money, credit and debt, 1776-1820 (part II): - First report on public credit (1790) / Alexander Hamilton. - Report on a national bank ([1790] 1904) / Alexander Hamilton. - Opinion against the constitutionality of a national bank ([1791] 1903) / Thomas Jefferson. - Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States (1791) / Alexander Hamilton. - An address to the stock-holders of the Bank of North-America (1791) / Pelatiah Webster. - The path to riches (1792) / James Sullivan. - Letters addressed to the yeomanry of the United States, concerning some observations on funding and bank systems (1793) / George Logan. - A definition of parties; or the political effects of the paper system considered (1794) / John Taylor. - Second report on public credit ([1795] 1904) / Alexander Hamilton. - Letter to John W. Eppes ([1813] 1903) / Thomas Jefferson.

Note:Vol. 5: Nationalism and applied issues: 1820 to the Civil War: - Thoughts on political economy (1820) / Daniel Raymond. - Addresses on political economy ([1822] 1968) / Mathew Carey. - New ideas on population with remarks on the theories of Malthus and Godwin (1823) / Alexander H. Everett. - Notes on political economy ([1826] 1960) / Jacob N. Cardozo. - Manual of political economy ([1828] 1968) / Willard Phillips. - Statement of some new principles on the subject of political economy (1834) / John Rae. - Considerations on the currency and banking system of the United States (1831) / Albert Gallatin. - A short history of paper money and banking (1833) / William M. Gouge. - The theory of money and banks investigated (1839) / George Tucker. - Original draft of the South Carolina exposition (1855) / John C. Calhoun. - "On nullification, etc.," speech delivered at Cincinnati, 3 August 1830, and "On the reduction in duties on imports," speech delivered in the Senate of the United States, 11 January 1832 (1855) / Henry Clay - The principles of free trade (1835) / Condy Raguet.

Note:Vol. 6: Sectionalism: 1820 to the Civil War: -tThe elements of political economy ([1837] 1860) / Francis Wayland. - Introductory lecture on political economy (1831) / Henry Vethake. - Lectures on the elements of political economy ([1829] 1971) / Thomas Cooper. - Lectures on the restrictive system (1829) / Thomas R. Dew. - Noets on political economy ([1844] 1967) / Nathaniel A. Ware. - The harmony of interests ([1851] 1868) / Henry C. Carey. - The industrial resources ([1854] 1966) / J.D.B. DeBow. - Political economy for the people ([1859] 1970) / George Tucker. - Public economy for the United States ([1848] 1969) / Calvin Colton. - The claims of labor (1861) / Stephen Colwell.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:Recommended in Best Books for Academic Libraries

This item has been checked out 10 time(s)
and currently has 0 hold request(s).